Semiconductor & Technology Specialist, Ingenuity

William Keating

Dr. William Keating is a highly experienced senior executive with over 25 years experience in the IT/Semiconductor Industry. The majority of Dr. Keating's career was spent at Intel Corporation where he held senior leadership positions in Europe, the US and Asia from 1992 through 2014. He served as Intel's IT Director for APAC, China & Japan from 2005 through 2014 when he was based in Hong Kong and was responsible for the IT systems (Infrastructure, Networks, Data Centres, ERP, Sales & Marketing systems, Business Intelligence etc. ) for all of Intel's offices & factories through the region. From 1998 through 2005, he was the founder & director of an internal IT Consulting Organisation (IT Flex Services), a 500-person team which remains a core part of the Intel IT Organisation to this day. Dr. Keating's first 6 years at Intel were spent in charge of the Factory Automation Systems (Robotics, Databases, Networks, Servers, Clients etc.) supporting Intel's then state-of-the-art 200mm factory network. Since leaving Intel in 2014, Dr Keating established his own Technology Research & Consulting Company (www.ingenuity.hk) where he focuses on the products, roadmaps & technologies of companies such as Intel, AMD, Samsung, Apple, Micron- as well as the key equipment suppliers to those companies e.g. ASML, AMAT, Canon, Nikon etc. Dr. Keating specializes in niche topics of high significance within the semiconductor industry. These include the future of Moore's Law and in particular the significance of Lithography in maintaining Moore's Law (EUV, SDA, NanoImprint), the role & growth of the GPU in specialised applications such as Deep Learning (Neural Networks) for Voice, Image & Pattern recognition at companies such as Facebook, Google & Baidu. He also holds regular discussions on the future of memory, in particular the rise of 3D NAND and the emergence of new memory technologies such as 3D Xpoint.

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist

Tesla Promises Full Self-Driving & Confirms Prototype "Max Max" Overtaking Option

NTSB Issues Preliminary Report On Fatal Tesla Florida Crash

Ingenuity

Our focus is exclusively on in-depth research & consulting in the broader semiconductor industry. We focus on the key players, namely Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC & Global Foundries - as well as some of the lesser known, but nonetheless critical, companies such as ASML (for EUV), Mellanox, Cavium, Xilinx etc. We specialise in their products, roadmaps, process technologies, competitive advantages & threats etc. We also help our clients understand the implications of new and emerging technologies, e.g. 3D X-Point, 3D NAND, Carbon Nanotubes, Autonomous Driving, Graphene, Silicon Photonics, Wafer-Level Optics, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, GPU, ASIC etc. 

Semiconductor Analysis & Research

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Brazil Semiconductors and semiconductor equipment / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<p>On June 7'th 2018, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) published their preliminary <a href="https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/nr20180607.aspx" target="_blank">report</a> into the fatal crash involving a <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/20279" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:20279:1">Tesla</a> Model X which occurred on March 23'rd 2018 on Highway 101 in Mountain View, California. The report follows a well-established NTSB pattern of initially summarizing the basic facts surrounding the accident while identifying key areas for further analysis and probable cause assignment at a later date. In this latest case featuring a fatality involving a Tesla vehicle being operated in Autopilot mode, interesting facts emerged around the challenges faced by the emergency authorities in dealing with the ensuing battery fire which engulfed the vehicle. Furthermore, evidence retrieved from the vehicle log files reveals that it was following a lead vehicle just prior to the crash, veered to the left for reasons unknown and actually <em>accelerated</em> into a damaged crash attenuator causing the accident which cost the driver his life. As such, the report raises more questions than it answers. For the moment, it leaves a cloud of uncertainty hanging over the reliability of Tesla's Autopilot with doubtless a long wait for the final report to address the many open questions which remain.   </p>

On June 7'th 2018, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) published their preliminary report into the fatal crash involving a Tesla Model X which occurred on March 23'rd 2018 on Highway 101 in Mountain View, California. The report follows a well-established NTSB pattern of initially summarizing the basic facts surrounding the accident while identifying key areas for further analysis and probable cause assignment at a later date. In this latest case featuring a fatality involving a Tesla vehicle being operated in Autopilot mode, interesting facts emerged around the challenges faced by the emergency authorities in dealing with the ensuing battery fire which engulfed the vehicle. Furthermore, evidence retrieved from the vehicle log files reveals that it was following a lead vehicle just prior to the crash, veered to the left for reasons unknown and actually accelerated into a damaged crash attenuator causing the accident which cost the driver his life. As such, the report raises more questions than it answers. For the moment, it leaves a cloud of uncertainty hanging over the reliability of Tesla's Autopilot with doubtless a long wait for the final report to address the many open questions which remain.   

Autonomous Driving- NTSB Tesla Preliminary Report Raises More Questions Than It Answers